Revolutionary War buck and ball shots found in Granby dig

Through pit 88, we now have 21 balls (22 if you count the bitten lead piece in the above photo) found in 19 different pits. The following image shows you these 19 pits and how they are in a pretty straight line with the site of Friday's Ferry. The pit that is a little out-of-line (pit 40) had a ball that was about 40% flattened (it was fired and hit something).

Why is this significant?

On May 1, 1781: "South Carolina Patriot militia Lt. Col. Henry Hampton attacked the British detachment guarding Friday's Ferry. Hampton's men killed 13 of them. Hampton then attacked another small detachment on their way to Fort Granby. Another 5 were killed in this action and Hampton captured a number of horses and slaves."

We continue to keep an eye on this interesting alignment of buck and ball shots in Granby. The following links take you to the artifact pictures for each pit/level that produced a buck-ball artifact: